Warsaw (AFP) Nov 18, 2013 - The United Nations' climate chief urged the coal industry on Monday to make dramatic changes to reduce its greenhouse gas emissions amid protests at a coal summit held on the sidelines of global climate talks.
Washington DC (SPX) Nov 18, 2013 - General El-Sisi may have found the solution to Egypt's economic woes. It is called war. During the weeks up to the coup, General El-Sisi had much to consider. With his access to the presidenti
Warsaw (AFP) Nov 18, 2013 - Greenpeace activists on Monday hoisted banners protesting against coal use atop Poland's economy ministry in Warsaw, as a global coal conference got underway and UN climate talks entered their final week.
Madrid (AFP) Nov 18, 2013 - Spain will appeal for damages over the Prestige tanker disaster which choked its northwest coast in oil, the government said Monday, after a court acquitted all defendants of causing the spill.
Knoxville TN (SPX) Nov 18, 2013 - At a board meeting in Oxford, Mississippi the Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA) Board of Directors have voted to retire units at three of its coal plants. This will affect coal-burning units at the C
Basra, Iraq (UPI) Nov 17, 2013 - The Iraqi government is seeking to restore calm in the southern province of Basra, the country's main oil production center, after hundreds of foreign oilmen were hastily evacuated amid violent protests by Iraqi oil workers.
Boston MA (SPX) Nov 15, 2013 - Lithium-air batteries have become a hot research area in recent years: They hold the promise of drastically increasing power per battery weight, which could lead, for example, to electric cars with
Cancun, Mexico (SPX) Nov 15, 2013 - Boeing and GOL Linhas Aereas Inteligentes S.A. will work together to speed the research, development and approval of new sources of sustainable aviation biofuel in Brazil. Their collaboration will s
Washington DC (SPX) Nov 15, 2013 - With the rise of online open course platforms such as Khan Academy, MIT OpenCourseWare and iTunes U, it has never been easier to teach yourself everything from American history to semiconductor manu
Washington DC (SPX) Nov 15, 2013 - Although oxygen is required to sustain life, oxygen sucks the life out of fusion by radiating away too much power from the high-temperature plasma. Accordingly, great efforts are expended to reduce
Washington DC (SPX) Nov 15, 2013 - Recent experiments provide the first assessment of the toughness of a novel lithium coating in the face of intense bombardment by very hot plasma in the divertor region of fusion devices. The result
Calgary, Alberta (UPI) Nov 15, 2013 - Swedish retail giant IKEA has agreed to buy a wind farm project in Alberta from Mainstream Renewable Power Ltd.
Washington DC (SPX) Nov 15, 2013 - In a collaborative effort, researchers in the United States and the United Kingdom have developed a new technique that will help them optimize the transport barrier, or pedestal, in fusion plasmas,
Berkeley CA (SPX) Nov 15, 2013 - Nature designed lignin, the tough woody polymer in the walls of plant cells, to bind and protect the cellulose sugars that plants use for energy. For this reason, lignin is a major challenge for tho
Washington DC (SPX) Nov 15, 2013 - Materials are widely recognized as one of the critical remaining challenges for making fusion a commercially viable energy source. In a future fusion power plant, the materials surrounding and inter
Raleigh NC (SPX) Nov 15, 2013 - Researchers from North Carolina State University have developed new technology and techniques for transmitting power wirelessly from a stationary source to a mobile receiver - moving engineers close
